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They cannot train them to work: navigating a real company's Slack threads, half-finished Notion docs, contradictory Jira tickets, and permission boundaries. That requires real enterprise data, and you cannot synthesize it. You have to source it.\nWe plug into enterprise tools, anonymize everything into a structurally identical digital twin, and generate reinforcement-learning environments with expert-level tasks calibrated against frontier models.\nOur values\nTrust, the foundation of every relationship, internal and external. We extend it by default and value the ownership that comes with it.\n\nAmbition, we commit, we move fast, with tenacity and efficiency.\n\nCollective, team first, low ego.\n\nKindness, at the heart of every interaction.\n\nThe offer\nLocation: Paris (city center), on-site with 1 to 2 days WFH\nStart: as soon as you are available\nContract: full-time (CDI)\nCompensation: fixed salary + bonus + equity (BSPCE)\nYour missions\nEvery dataset we sell exists because a company decided to trust us with the most sensitive asset they own. That trust is a legal construction before it is anything else, and right now it is held together by three founders, outside counsel and a lot of care.\nAs our first legal hire, you own it. You report directly to Grégoire (COO & co-founder) and work daily with Pierre-Louis (CEO) and the tech and ops teams.\nOwn our legal and privacy posture. You set the standard that lets a CEO hand us their company's data, and the standard that lets a frontier lab buy what comes out. You decide what we commit to, what we refuse, and where the line sits.\n\nOwn our data licensing contracts. Templates for the EU and the US, redlining and negotiation alongside the COO and directly with the companies we buy data from. These contracts are the product's foundation: every deal runs through them.\n\nNegotiate the sell side. The agreements with the frontier labs we sell to, where the stakes per contract are the highest in the company.\n\nOwn the legal framework of anonymization. With the tech and ops teams, define what \"anonymized\" actually means in our pipeline, in law and not in theory, and be the person who can defend it to a partner's counsel, a lab's counsel, or a regulator.\n\nLead SOC 2 and ISO 27001 end to end. You drive the projects, choose the auditors, chase the evidence and get us certified. Technical controls come from the tech team, the outcome is yours.\n\nRaise our quality bar. Our processes get better when someone asks the hard questions early. You will be one of the people who do, well beyond the strictly legal scope.\n\nLight corporate and employment support where it helps, though most of it stays with outside counsel. This is not a general counsel job in disguise.\nWho we're looking for\n7 to 10 years of experience, in a top-tier firm, in-house, or both, with real ownership of data matters.\n\nQualified lawyer, jurisdiction flexible: US bar, French avocat, or equivalent. We care about judgment, not about which bar you sit at.\n\nDeep expertise in data protection and data licensing law. Not privacy-adjacent, not privacy as one file among twenty. This is the core of the role.\n\nDual US and EU coverage, with US law weighted the most. You are credible on the American side and solid on GDPR and the European framework.\n\nYou have negotiated data agreements yourself, redlined them, sat across the table, and closed them. You are not a reviewer of other people's drafts.\n\nPragmatic in a fast-moving company. You give an answer, not a memo with five options. You know the difference between a real risk and a theoretical one, and you say which is which.\n\nComfortable being the only lawyer in the room, and comfortable saying no to founders when it matters.\n\nFully fluent in English and French, both mandatory. 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